It’s a simple rule of economics:  when demand is high, prices are too. Experienced, reliable horses are in demand, and that’s why buyers at the REAL Ranch Horse Invitational Sale – held each April at the Yellowstone Boys & Girls Ranch in Billings, Montana – pay good money year after year for the quality mounts [...]

Badlands Spring Select Horse Sale was March 26th, 2011 at the Silver Sage Community Corral in Brooks, Alberta. As one of Northernhorse.com’s earliest sales it is always really interesting to see how the horse sales are starting off. You can get more details at their website. They have put all the individual prices up on [...]

The average price for all horses sold at the Professional Auction Services Sales which include many of the major U.S. horse sales such as the World Champion Show Sale, Congress Super Sale and NRCHA Snaffle Bit Futurity Sales reached an all time high in 2010. An average of $4590 for the 1556 horses that changed [...]

Nov. 6, 2010 marked the 37th year of the Alberta Quarter Horse Breeders’ Group Fall Sale held in conjunction with Farmfair at the Edmonton EXPO Centre at Northlands. Jerry Kanewischer was on the auction block and Ron Anderson was once again our pedigree commentator. Top 5 averaged – $4,220.00 Top 10 averaged – $3,570.00 Overall [...]

Going to Farmfair and the AQHBG Fall Sale always signals that another year is coming to an end for me but at least this year the weather was better than some years. We have a lot of choices for weather in Alberta in November. Did you see our table at Farmfair? We thought we would [...]

There seems to be some optimism in the horse world if the sales are any indication. Horse breeders are not exactly getting rich but then have they ever? I think we still need to be really careful about how many and who we breed but considering how depressed the U.S. economy in particular is, these U.S. sales show some optimism.

Four stallions who are clones of Smart Little Lena have been consigned to the National Cutting Horse Association Futurity Sale. According to the experts, genetics material contributed by a clone of a male horses is identical to the original, as the mitochondrial DNA is not passed on in the breeding process. This means an offspring [...]